Position: Assistant Professor

Education:

• 2001 Ph.D. - Warsaw Agricultural University, Soil Science
• 1996 M.Sc. - Warsaw Agricultural University, Agriculture

Employment:

• 2004 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science, Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW)
• 1996 - 2004  Assistant, Department of Soil Science, Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW)

Research interests:

• chemical and micromorphological study of iron oxides in soils (bog iron ore)
• silicon transformations in soils (phytoliths, testate amoebae, diatoms, sponges)
• soil genesis, classification and evolution

Participation and management of research projects:

• 2006 – 2009 „Characteristics of amorphous and bio-pedogenic forms of silicon in polish soils”, project sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MEiSW).

List of Publications:

• Kaczorek, D., Vrydaghs, L., Devos, Y., Peto, A. & Effland, W.R., 2018. Biogenic siliceous features. In Stoops, G., Marcelino, V. & Mees, F. (eds.), Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths. Second Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 157-176.
• Daniel Puppe, Axel Höhn, Danuta Kaczorek, Manfred Wanner, Michael Sommer. 2016. As time goes -Spatiotemporal changes of biogenic Si pools in initial soils of an artificial catchment in NE Germany. Applied Soil Ecology 105:9-16.
• Daniel Puppe, Otto Ehrmann, Danuta Kaczorek, Manfred Wanner, Michael Sommer. 2015. The protozoic Si pool in temperate forest ecosystems — Quantification, abiotic controls and interactions with earthworms. Geoderma, 243/244: 196–-204.
• Daniel Puppe, Danuta Kaczorek, Manfred Wannera, Michael Sommer. 2014. Dynamics and drivers of the protozoic Si pool along a 10-yearchronosequence of initial ecosystem states. Ecological Engineering 70: 477-–482.
• M. Sommer, H. Jochheim, A. Höhn, J. Breuer, Z. Zagorski, J. Busse, D. Barkusky, K. Meier, D. Puppe, M. Wanner, and D. Kaczorek. 2013. Si cycling in a forest biogeosystem – the importance of transient state biogenic Si pools. Biogeosciences Volume 10, No 7, pp 4991-5007.
• Brzychcy S., Zagorski Z., Sieczko L., Kaczorek D. 2012. Analysis of groundmass colour as a tool for evaluating the extent of pedogenic processes in chromic soils. Rocz. Gleb.-Soil Science Annual Vol 63 No3/2012:3-7
• Otto Ehrmann, Daniel Puppe, Manfred Wanner, Danuta Kaczorek, Michael Sommer. 2012. Testate amoebae in 31 mature forest ecosystems – Densities and micro-distribution in soils. European Journal of Protistology . 48: 161-168.
• Grit Steinhöfel,  Joern Breuer, Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Ingo Horn, Danuta Kaczorek, Michael Sommer. 2011 Micrometer silicon isotope diagnostics of soils by UV femtosecond laser ablation. Chemical Geology. 286: 280-289.
• Kaczorek D. 2009 Identyfikacja Biogenicznego krzemu z wykorzystaniem badań w mikroskopie świetlnym oraz badań mikrosondą. Rocz. Gleboz. 1-9
• Kaczorek D., Brümmer G. W., Sommer M. 2009. Content and Binding Forms of Heavy Metals, Aluminium and Phosphorus in Bog Iron Ores from. Journal of Environmental Quality. 38: 1109-1119.
• Höhn A., Sommer M., Kaczorek D., Schalitz G., Breuer J. 2008. Silicon fractions in Histosols and Gleyosols of a temperate grassland site. J. Plant. Nut. Soil Sci. 171, 409-418.
• Saccone L., D.J., Conley, E. Koning, D. Sauer, M. Sommer, D. Kaczorek, S. W., Blecker, E. F. Kelly. 2007: Assessing the extraction and quantification of amorphous silica (ASi) in soils and grassland ecosystems. European Journal of Soil Science, 58, 1446-1459.
• Kaczorek D., Z. Zagórski, 2007. Micromorphological characteristics of the Bsm horizon in soils with bog iron ore. Polish Journal of Soil Science, Vol. XL, nr 1, 2007, 81-87.
• Conley D. J., Sommer M., Meunier J. D., Kaczorek D., Saccone L., 2006: Silicon in the Terrestrial Biogeosphere. The Silicon Cycle. Human Perturbations and Impacts on Aquatic Systems. SCOPE 66 .
• Sommer M., Kaczorek D., Kuzyakov Y., Breuer J., 2006: Silicon pools and fluxes in soils and landacapes: A review. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 169: 296-314.
• Kaczorek D., Sommer M., 2004: Silicon cycle in terrestrial biogeosystems of temperate climate. Rocz. Gleboz. T. LV Nr 3, 221-230
• Kaczorek D., Sommer M., Andruschkewitsch I., Oktaba L., Czerwiński Z., Stahr K., 2004: A comparative micromorphological and chemical study of "Raseneisenstein (bog iron ore) and "Ortstein". Geoderma 121, 83-94
• Kaczorek D., Sommer M., 2003: Micromorphology, chemistry and mineralogy of bog iron ores from Poland. Catena 54, 393-402.
• Zagórski Z., Kaczorek D., 2002: Haematite - a lithogenetic form of iron in soils from the southern part of the Holy Cross Mts. Ann. Warsaw Agricult. Univ. – SGGW, Agriculture 43, 17-24.
• Kaczorek, D., Czerwiński, Z., 2001: Skład mineralogiczny rud darniowych pochodzących z okolic Warszawy i Łomży. Rocz. Gleboz. T LII Supl. Warszawa ss. 177-181.
• Czerwiński, Z., Kaczorek, D., 1996: Właściwości i typologia gleb wytworzonych z rudy darniowej. Rocz. Gleboz. T XLVII Supl. Warszawa, ss. 97-101.

Foreign scholarships and short visits:

• 1998, 1.06- 31.07, Germany, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation
• 1999, 1.06- 30.11, Niemcy, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, DAAD- scholarship,
• 2001, 15-31.03, Belgium, University of Ghent, Department of Geology and Soil Science
• 2001, 26.08- 30.09, Italy, University of Naples Federico II, Neapol-Portici
• 2002, 25.06-15.07, Germany, GSF-German Research Center for Environmental Health,  Neuherberg
• 2003, 1.07-15.08 , Germany , University of Bonn, DAAD- scholarship.
• 2008, 1-15.06, France, CEREGE Aix-en-Provence- Center Europeen de Recherche et d’Enseigement des Geosciences de l‘Environnement,
• 2008, 1.12-28.02 2009, Germany, The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg.
• 2009, 1.12-28.02 2010, Germany, The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg.
• 20011, 1.12-28.02 2012, Germany, The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg.
• 2013, 1.02-30.04, Niemcy, B-TU Cottbus- Brandenburg University of Technology,  the Rector of SGGW- scholarship.

Awards:

• 2009 Individual Awards (III degree) the Rector of Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) for scientific achievements 

Activities:

• Member of the International Union Soil Science (IUSS) 
• Member of the Polish Soil Science Society (PTG)
• Member of the German Soil Science Society (DBG)
• Member of Society for Phytolith Research (SPR)

TEACHING OF STUDENTS:

• Soil Science -  the first level undergraduate studies (course agriculture), Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, lectures